Acanthocephala
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| Acanthocephala | |
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| Corynosoma wegeneri | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Gnathifera |
| Phylum: | Acanthocephala Koelreuter, 1771[1][2] |
| Clesses | |
Acanthocephala (Greek ἄκανθος, akanthos, thorn + κεφαλή, kephale, heid) is a phylum o parasitic wirms kent as acanthocephalans, thorny-heidit wirms, or spiny-heidit wirms an aw, chairacterised bi the presence o an eversible proboscis, airmed wi spines, that it uises to pierce an hauld the gut waw o its host.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Crompton 1985, p. 27
- ↑ Koelreuter, I. T. (1770). "Descriptio cyprini rutili, quem halawel russi vocant, historico-anatomica". Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae. 15: 494–503.
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